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The business world
targets Italy
Foreign Economic
Relations Council (DEİK)
Turkey – Italy Business
Council held the “Target
Italy, Invest in Italy”
meeting as a part of the
“Destinazione Italia” project
which aims to draw in foreign
investment into Italy on
April 16th, 2014, in İstanbul,
held in cooperation by the
Italian Embassy and the
Italy Investment Agency
Invitalia. Attending the meeting were TOBB/DEİK President M. Rifat
Hisarcıklıoğlu, DEİK Turkish – Italian Business Council President
Zeynep Bodur Okyay and Italy’s Ambassador to Ankara Gianpaolo
Scarante as well as many Turkish and Italian businesspeople.
During his speech at the meeting, TOBB/DEİK President M. Rifat
Hisarcıklıoğlu said, “The lifting of the transportation quota and mutual
deregulation of transportation will render the economic relations between
us very strong.”
The Coordination Council
for the Improvement of
Investment Environment
in Turkey (YOİKK aims to
rationalize the regulations on
investments in Turkey, develop
policies by determining the
necessary arrangements that will
enhance the competitiveness of
the investment environment,
generate solutions to the
administrative barriers
encountered by the domestic
and international investors in all
phases of the investment process
including the operating period.
The Union of Chambers
and Commodity Exchanges of
Turkey (TOBB) is a member of
YOİKK which was established
in accordance to a Ministerial
Council decision made on
December 11th, 2011. All public
institutions and the private
sector (TOBB, TÜSİAD, TİM,
YASED) are represented on the
YOİKK platform.
YOİKK’s most recent action
plans, the first of which was
formed in 2007, were announced
to the public during a meeting
on July 3rd 2014 presided
by Economy Minister Nihat
Zeybekçi. TOBB President M.
Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu said, “If we
are to achieve our 2023 goals we
must enact YOİKK’s action plans
with all due haste.”
YOİKK
2014-2015
Action Plans
announced to the
public
Crossroads of life-long
alumni status:
TOBB ETÜ MED
The Union of Chambers and
Commodity Exchanges of Turkey
University of Economics and
Technology Alumni Association
(TOBB ETÜ MED) was established in
2008 yılında kuruldu. Established
in order to keep the TOBB ETÜ
community together and to enable
the alumni to continue their
relationships with the university,
TOBB ETÜ MED’s Board of
Directors is comprised of 5 alumni.
TOBB ETÜ School of Economics
and Administrative Sciences,
Department of Business 2008
graduate Burak Tolga Terzi is the
current President of the TOBB ETÜ
MED Board of Directors.
Speaking in regards to TOBB
ETÜ MED’s aim, activities and
future goals Terzi said, “The goal
of our activities is to contribute
to the social, cultural, sportive,
occupational and scientific aspects
of the lives of our members as well
as increasing solidarity among
them, create job opportunities
- acting as a bridge between
the students, alumni and the
university.”
